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How To Make Pop Rocks

March 15, 2011 by Chris Durso

Did you ever wonder what makes Pop Rocks pop? Instructables user chickflix lets the cat out of the bag with a simple recipe for the combustible candy.

~ 2 Cups Sugar
~ 1 Tsp Baking Soda
~ 1/4 Cup Citric Acid Crystals (Can be tricky to find. If your local gourmet/country store doesn’t have them, try here .)
~ 1/3 Cup of Corn Syrup
~ Small amount of Water (Just enough to get sugar wet)
~ 1/4-1 Tsp Flavoring (any extract will work. Use what you like! When using stronger flavors such as cinnamon, mint, and cherry, you can use a small amount (about 1/4 teaspoon). Subtler flavors such as lemon, strawberry, orange, and peach require more (1/2 to 1 teaspoon.)
~ A Few Drops of Food Coloring of your choice

Now you can make any flavor of Pop Rocks you’d like — bubble gum, cherry, foie gras, etc. Just don’t wash it down with Coke, or you might suffer the same fate as that Life cereal kid.

[link, via Boing Boing]

Filed Under: Daily Links Tagged With: candy, how to, pop rocks

Comments

  1. angel says

    April 27, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    this sucksss egggssss!!!!!!!!!

  2. kristi says

    April 27, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    i have tried this many different ways they all sucked! we cant even get them to pop so how did you do it?

  3. Lydia says

    October 15, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    @Blaze, what flavoring did you use? I’d like to know before I try, so I don’t waste my time.

  4. Blaze says

    April 26, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    This was the worst tasting candy I have every made. All around a terrible recipe.

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